Should I force myself to go to college?

[ucbalumnus]

@cmsjmt

Many successful people never went to college, including 14% of Google’s employees.

That is a misquote.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/23/opinion/sunday/friedman-how-to-get-a-job-at-google.html?_r=0 says:

@Thomas Friedman

[Lazlo Bock, senior VP of people operations at Google] also noted that the “proportion of people without any college education at Google has increased over time” — now as high as 14 percent on some teams.

“As high as 14 percent on some teams” does not necessarily mean 14% of the whole company.

Also, it is rather likely that those without formal college education are self-educated to equivalent or higher levels of skill in something that is desired from an employee.